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The local and the national in community care
— exploring policy and politics in Finland and Britain | | Author(s) | Viola Burau, Teppo Kröger |
| Journal title | Social Policy & Administration, vol 38, no 7, December 2004 |
| Pages | pp 793-810 |
| Source | http://www.blackwell-synergy.com |
| Keywords | Community care ; Social policy ; Central government departments and agencies ; Local Authority ; Comparison ; United Kingdom ; Finland. |
| Annotation | International literature on community care tends to focus on the national level of welfare institutions and policies. However, community care is largely a locally tailored service, and this paper makes a case for local comparisons of community care policies. The authors use local case studies from Finland and Britain to argue that focusing on the local level contributes to the comparative study of community care in two ways. First, local comparisons highlight the often distinctively local nature of community care policies, and thereby add to our understanding of community care. Second, local comparisons extend existing cross-country explanations of community care by showing that community care is largely shaped by local politics, together with indirect structuring by national contexts. As such, the local case studies highlight the importance of the relationship between policy and politics, which has often been neglected in comparative research. (KJ/RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041221211 A |
| Classmark | PA: TM2: PC: PE: 48: 8: 76L |
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